Plant Communities in Changing Environment.

Changing environment markedly shapes plant diversity and vegetation across all spatial scales. It leads to innumerable local, regional and sometimes global changes in plant communities. Here, we present eleven full-text research articles of the Special Issue "Plant communities in changing environment", which focuses on the evaluation of plant diversity and vegetation changes in different plant communities. We conclude that the results of all research studies show that plants, habitat and functional diversity are strongly conditioned in space and time by various factors, including climate, water regime, snow conditions, and human activities. These changes are also among most significant potential threats for plant diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]